3 Cal. 4th 888 - Kowis v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 359 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 368 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 35 Cal. 4th 180 - Varian Medical Systems, Inc. v. Delfino (2005), 31 Cal. App. 4th 573 - Union Bank v. Superior Court (1995)
3 federal appellate · 359 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Palma v. U.S. Industrial Fasteners, Inc. · 8 Cal. 3d 247 - Friends of Mammoth v. Board of Supervisors · 13 Cal. 3d 835 - People v. Shuey · 25 Cal. 3d 891 - Consumers Lobby Against Monopolies v. Public Utilities Commission · 6 Cal. 3d 484 - People v. Medina
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 368 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can apply to pretrial writ proceedings. When the appellate court issues an alternative writ, the matter is fully briefed, there is an opportunity for oral argument, and the cause is decided by a written opinion. The resultant holding establishes law of the case upon a later appeal from the final judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The law of the case doctrine states that when, in deciding an appeal, an appellate court `states in its opinion a principle or rule of law necessary to the decision, that principle or rule becomes the law of the case and must be adhered to throughout its subsequent progress, both in the lower court and upon subsequent appeal . . ., and this although in its subsequent consideration this court may be clearly of the opinion that the former decision is erroneous in that particular.' [Citations.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"... if the denial followed a less rigorous procedure, [than that of full argument and opinion], it should not establish law of the case. To be sure, the court on a later appeal might often reach the same result as before. But it is not required to do so by the law of the case doctrine ... A summary denial of a writ petition does not establish law of the case whether or not that denial is intended to be on the merits or is based on some other reason ..." 20”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.